Werner Kuers

Biography Kuers was born in Berlin in 1907, the same city where he later received his Diplom degree in Engineering from the Königliche Technische Hochschule (now Technische Universität Berlin) in 1930. In 1942 Kuers was sent by the German Army to Peenemünde. There he met Wernher von Braun, who assigned him to work in the center's machine shop. Kuers was discharged from the Army in August 1944, and in February 1945 he exited Peenemünde. During his time at Fort Bliss, he joined the El Paso Symphony Orchestra. Later, while working at the Marshall Space Flight Center, he was concertmaster for the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra from 1955 until his retirement.

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